Plot Summary
New York City crime kingpin John Martin (Humphrey Bogart) and his men terrorize local truckers into working for them, but young, self-employed driver Denny Jordan (George Brent) manages to fend off the gangsters. Eventually, Martin's thugs bully Denny's pregnant wife and destroy his business, and the desperate trucker commits a robbery in order to make ends meet. But the mobsters know about the crime, so they blackmail Denny into joining the racket, and he finds himself mixed up in a murder.